Add a mod for fictional martial arts

[Photoloss]

Summary

SUMMARY: Mods "Re-adds fictional martial arts as a mod"

Purpose of change

Content being outright removed is never all that fun, but the Five Deadly Venoms definitely do not suit the base game's penchant for realism. This mod is not solely intended to restore access to these arts but also as a go-to alternative for any future additions deemed unsuitable for the base game.

Describe the solution

• Remove Five Deadly Venoms martial arts manuals from dojo drop tables (may be an oversight from Deprecate fictional martial arts. #28874)
• Keep martial art definitions in the base game for backwards compatibility, file renamed to avoid future deletion
• Add a small mod granting access to the Venom Mob starting trait as well as restoring the martial arts manuals as dojo loot

Describe alternatives you've considered

• The contents of martialarts_fictional.json could be redistributed to the standard locations for their types, current examples are inconsistent.
• There might be a better phrasing for the mod authors. I do not claim authorship of any functional content of the mod as it was simply copied from the base game but do not want to shirk responsibility for it either.

[Wokko1]

Could you please describe what is unsuitable in those martial arts?
I never used those, but they add variety to the game.

[Photoloss]

@Wokko1 The removal was not my decision, see #28874. These "martial arts" are not practiced anywhere in the real world, not even in a modern sporting/competition context. They basically don't exist and the way they are portrayed in the movie certainly would not function in real life (especially the Lizard essentially "standing" on a vertical wall as if they could rotate gravity).

The good news for you is that the styles should remain in the base game for a lengthy period of time for the sake of backwards compatibility, and you can edit the mods.json in your world save file to add this mod restoring everything without having to restart. At least that is the current intent.

[DracoGriffin]

I'm guessing C:DDA main repo is meant for anyone to add, edit or otherwise modify?

I'd suggest removing the line and adding a second line:

Suggested change

	"authors": [ "Photoloss", "C:DDA main repo" ],
	"authors": [ "Photoloss" ],
	"maintainers": [ "Anyone" ],

Hopefully makes it understood that anyone can make changes to it. I'm not 100% sure on the guidelines for stuff like this, but typically any "official" mods are "anyone and everyone"'s responsibility, so it might be moot.

[Photoloss]

The main point from my side was that I am not actually the "original author" of the code for the martial arts. If I were to post chapters from Alice in Wonderland on a blog for example the credited "author" should be Lewis Carroll and not myself as the blog owner.

[ZhilkinSerg]

You can remove authors and maintainers nodes - they aren't necessary.

[adamkad1]

realism strikes again

[ZhilkinSerg]

realism strikes again

It is actually a strike back at realism.

[kd8qdz]

Can we add Panzer Kunst?

[Photoloss]

@kd8qdz Well I have no idea what that is and it does not seem to be a JoJo reference so you'll have to provide some more info. As long as it's roughly on the same power level as regular MAs (so nothing ridiculous like Saiyan airborne combat) I am not aware of any particular reason not to add to a mod.

[DracoGriffin]

@kd8qdz Well I have no idea what that is and it does not seem to be a JoJo reference so you'll have to provide some more info. As long as it's roughly on the same power level as regular MAs (so nothing ridiculous like Saiyan airborne combat) I am not aware of any particular reason not to add to a mod.

@Photoloss https://battleangel.fandom.com/wiki/Panzer_Kunst

So probably another version of Bionic Combatives.

I would've linked it to you in Discord, but I don't see you on there.